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nitrh 'tutes stmt lffirrl. t i` IMPROVEDMEANS FOR .ATTAGHING ELASTIG TIPS T0 LEGS OI' FURNITURE.

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Be it known that I, E; S. TORRY, of the city, county, and' State of New York, have invented a new and useful improvement inAttaching Elastic Tips to Furniture Legs; and I hereby declare and ascertain rny saidv vinvention as follows, referring to the acoo'mpanyin g drawings, in which--v Figure V1 is a vertical section through the centre of the leg, with the elastic tip-attached. Figure 2 is an elastic tip, shown in section before being attached. 'l v The object of my invention is a cheap, convenient, and readily applied fixture 'for securely confining elastic 'tips to -the'legs of furniture.V I have found it difficult, by any means heretofore essayed, without too much complexity and expense, to permanently fasten elastic'tips to furniture legs, especially where the legs are too small' to form a-socketvtherein. y

My present device is a simple and secure fastening, readily applied to old as well as new furniture. ts

construction is as follows: The 4lower end of the furniture leg a is pointed, and on to it is iitted a metal fei'rule,

B, by screws, (or otherwise,) as is clearly shown inthe' drawing. Opposite the :conical 'or pointed part of the leg a there is a recess, c, around the inside of 'the ferrule or socket B, and aty the bottom of aslanch, d, projecting inward, as clearly seen in the drawing. -My elastic utip is formed of vulcanized India rubber, or' suclr other suitable material as VAshall be found adapted to the purpose, and I prefer to have it formed as seen at f, iig. 2; the lower part being the segment of a sphere, theupper part being in shape a necli with a'small recess around it, as clearly illustrated inthe figure; and in the centre or axis of this neck, 'at e, there is an acute conical hole. This elastic tip f is `pressed in to'the ferrule B, andwhen theferrule is screwed on to the leg a, the point of the cone enters the hole in the elastic tip, and spreads it, forcing itoutward into the recess in the ferrule, and pinching and holding it firm, as seen in fig. 1. 4 l

i Having thus fully described my `mode of fastening elastictips'to furnitue legs, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-- I l The combiuation of the socket'Bandcnical legA a with the tip'f, substantially as -and `for the purposesl herein set` forth.. y ,l

' EVS, TORREY.v

Witnesses:v

WM. Z. .W. CHAPMAN, 

